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Reigning Formula Renault 2.0 Alps teams’ champions Prema Powerteam kicked the 2014 season off on a high note, with Andrew Tang posting the quickest lap of the day of practice for the Imola opener.
While Tang topped the second practice session, the first one went to his teammate Bruno Bonifacio, who was a tenth and a half quicker than Koiranen’s Nyck de Vries.
Car racing rookie Charles Leclerc ended the morning in third, ahead of JD’s Matevos Isaakyan and GSK’s Matteo Cairoli.
Prema drivers Dennis Olsen and Alex Bosak were sixth and eighth, split by Fortec’s Seb Morris, while George Russell and Egor Orudzhev rounded out the top ten.
The second session saw limited running from the drivers, with Tang leading Bonifacio by less than a tenth at the checkered flag. Leclerc was again third, leading Caterham-backed teammate Matt Parry and Orudzhev.
Sixth went to another karting graduate – Koiranen’s Russell – with French F4 champion Anthoine Hubert in seventh and Olsen in eighth. Jenzer’s Denis Korneev and Italian racer Cairoli made up the rest of the top ten.
Combined session results
| Pos. | Driver | Team | FP1 | FP2 |
| 1 | Andrew Tang | Prema Powerteam | 1:57.379 | 1:55.251 |
| 2 | Bruno Bonifacio | Prema Powerteam | 1:56.148 | 1:55.346 |
| 3 | Charles Leclerc | Fortec Motorsports | 1:56.427 | 1:55.397 |
| 4 | Matt Parry | Fortec Motorsports | 1:57.302 | 1:55.481 |
| 5 | Egor Orudzhev | Tech 1 Racing | 1:57.167 | 1:55.885 |
| 6 | George Russell | Koiranen GP | 1:57.102 | 1:56.087 |
| 7 | Anthoine Hubert | Tech 1 Racing | 1:57.770 | 1:56.088 |
| 8 | Dennis Olsen | Prema Powerteam | 1:57.041 | 1:56.228 |
| 9 | Nyck de Vries | Koiranen GP | 1:56.305 | 1:56.782 |
| 10 | Denis Korneev | Jenzer Motorsport | 1:57.804 | 1:56.371 |
| 11 | Matteo Cairoli | GSK Grand Prix | 1:57.036 | 1:56.458 |
| 12 | Nick Cassidy | China BRT by JCS Team | 1:58.619 | 1:56.720 |
| 13 | Matevos Isaakyan | JD Motorsport | 1:56.987 | 1:56.767 |
| 14 | Hans Villemi | Prema Powerteam | 1:58.042 | 1:56.859 |
| 15 | Seb Morris | Fortec Motorsports | 1:57.070 | 1:56.955 |
| 16 | Alex Bosak | Prema Powerteam | 1:57.086 | 1:57.468 |
| 17 | Martin Rump | Fortec Motorsports | 1:57.877 | 1:57.120 |
| 18 | Dario Capitanio | BVM Racing | 1:57.551 | 1:57.368 |
| 19 | Marek Bockmann | Jenzer Motorsport | 1:58.647 | 1:57.507 |
| 20 | Yuan Bo | Jenzer Motorsport | 1:59.834 | 1:57.572 |
| 21 | Jack Aitken | Fortec Motorsports | 1:57.586 | No Time |
| 22 | Simon Gachet | ARTA Engineering | 1:58.414 | 1:57.745 |
| 23 | Vasily Romanov | Tech 1 Racing | 1:59.103 | 1:57.793 |
| 24 | Hugo de Sadeleer | Tech 1 Racing | 1:59.741 | 1:57.835 |
| 25 | Luke Chudleigh | Tech 1 Racing | 1:59.245 | 1:58.085 |
| 26 | Hong Li Ye | Koiranen GP | 2:00.307 | 1:58.181 |
| 27 | Akash Nandy | Tech 1 Racing | 2:01.133 | 1:58.187 |
| 28 | Alessio Rovera | Cram Motorsport | 1:59.220 | 1:58.286 |
| 29 | Thiago Vivacqua | Fortec Motorsports | 1:58.474 | 1:58.938 |
| 30 | Martin Kodric | Fortec Motorsports | 1:58.647 | 1:58.597 |
| 31 | Dennis Anoschin | Jenzer Motorsport | 1:59.025 | 1:58.854 |
| 32 | James Allen | ARTA Engineering | 1:59.065 | 2:00.236 |
| 33 | Semen Evstigneev | BVM Racing | 1:59.829 | 1:59.382 |
| 34 | Kang Ling | Koiranen GP | 1:59.509 | 1:59.629 |
| 35 | Patric Armand | Tech 1 Racing | 1:59.705 | 1:59.575 |
| 36 | Pietro Peccenini | TS Corse | 2:00.407 | 2:01.266 |
| 37 | Vitaly Larionov | Koiranen GP | 2:02.911 | 2:00.617 |
| 38 | Danyil Pronenko | AS Motorsport by GSK | 2:04.423 | 2:01.084 |
| 39 | Matteo Gonfiantini | TS Corse | 2:05.009 | 2:02.621 |
| 40 | Mikhail Tarasov | Koiranen GP | 2:04.290 | 2:05.929 |
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